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Hey guys. Listen, I want to talk about liquids, intermittent fasting, and ketosis. I get a lot of questions on can I drink this during an intermittent fasting when I'm supposed to be fasting.

Is it going to interfere with my fat burning? Let's talk about that. Okay. The first thing I want to talk about

is tea. Can you drink tea? Absolutely. You can.

Now, tea and coffee do have caffeine. Obviously, you can drink too much. If you drink a small amount

of tea, it has some caffeine. It's probably not going to be a problem at all. But large

amounts of caffeine can start stimulating insulin, but small amounts

don't seem to have an effect. Okay? So, tea is okay. Of course, just get nationally decaffinated.

That would be even better. All right. So coffee. Is coffee okay? Well, let's talk about coffee.

Again, I think one in the morning would be great, and I know some people get really upset because they're used to drinking it all day long, and then I'd say, I'm trying to take it away from them, and I don't want to do that because of the addiction, I mean, the craving that they have.

But the point is that too much coffee can rev up the adrenals and activate cortisol,

which can then activate insulin. Okay, so that's the problem because it's a stimulant,

and it stimulates the adrenal. Now, caffeine also stimulates adrenaline, which actually does help

fat burning, by the way, but I wouldn't drink coffee to lose weight. All right? So one in the

morning I think is going to be fine. Now, as far as what to put in it, is milk or cream going to be a

problem? From just working with lots of people, it's not really a problem if you do small amounts.

Now, let's talk about if you're adding the bulletproof,

which is the butter in there. For some people, they can do it. Other people, it's almost as if

they're taking a meal because they're consuming a good amount of butter in there. So, I mean,

if you want to use that as a meal, I mean, go for it. But if we're trying to do intermittent fasting, we're trying to

fast and not add that much fat into even the times you're not supposed to be eating, because

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